Yep .. all -b switches have been moved from rpm to rpmbuild. So if you edit the Makefile, replacing call of "rpm" with "rpmbuild" it works. Regards, Martin List-Petersen martin at list-petersen dot dk -- Twas FORTRAN as the doloop goes Did logzerneg the ifthen block All kludgy were the function flows And subroutines adhoc. Beware the runtime-bug my friend squrooneg, the false goto Beware the infiniteloop And shun the inprectoo. -- "OUTCONERR," to the scheme of "Jabberwocky" On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 17:45, Jay Denebeim wrote: > I've seen quite a few references to this with google, I haven't seen a > solution. The problem is making a stock kernel with 'make rpm' on a > redhat 9 system. Redhat has done something to rpm with version 9 that > is causing it to create a debug package for every package you make. > Unfortunately whatever it's doing is busted for stock kernels. > > I've been unable to find a way to turn off this generation. There is > a variable %_enable_debug_packages 1 in the redhat macros, I've turned > it off, but that hasn't helped. > > So, how do I disable this 'feature'? Does anyone know? > > Jay